2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

CAPE3000 Design Project (BEng)

40 creditsClass Size: 200

Module manager: Dr T Mahmud
Email: t.mahmud@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Module replaces

PEME3200 Design Project (BEng)

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should:
- Have experience of working in design teams and communicating effectively within the team;
- Be capable of demonstrating process selection based on sound scientific and engineering data and arguments;
- Have experience of project organisation and management;
- Be aware of the financial, environmental and other aspects associated with a major design project;
- Have acquired the necessary skills to enable them to conduct a project with a significant degree of engineering competence;
- Be capable of disseminating their findings in written and verbal form.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should have a deeper knowledge of:
- Principles for mass and energy balances for complex processes with chemical reactions, combustion and recycles.
- Methodologies for design of process equipment.
- Environmental and safety issues.
- Project management, cost and investment analysis.

Skills outcomes
On completion of this module, students should have the following skills:
- Calculations of mass and energy balances for industrial process plants.
- Use of spreadsheets (Excel) and HYSYS to solve mass and energy balances.
- Process equipment design calculations.
- Cost analysis and investment appraisal.
- Project management, team work and decision making.
- Literature review.
- Preparation of project plan, identification of milestones and targets.
- Conducting project meetings.
- Verbal presentation and written report preparation.

Syllabus

Design Project
Students will work together in a group to design a chemical process plant or other industrial operation. Each project will be supervised by a member of academic staff who will act as project supervisor and will be responsible for the assessment of that project. Students will meet with the supervisor on a weekly basis to ensure good communications within the project; they will also attend a series of lectures and seminars dealing with relevant aspects of the planning, design and evaluation of the project and ethical issues. Students will be responsible for the organisation and delivery of relevant aspects required in the project, as prescribed. Each group will be required to produce a project plan detailing the planning and execution of the project, an interim report (part 1) at the end of semester 1, covering basic aspects and relevant literature in the field (including raw materials/products, process route evaluation and selection, SHE, project management) and mass and energy balances, and a final report (part 2) at the end of semester 2, covering process control/P&I diagram, economic evaluation, plant layout, HAZOP and plant commissioning aspects of the project. Each individual student will be required to produce a plant equipment design report in semester 2 covering detailed technical design, engineering drawings, control and cost estimation of a selected plant item. This element of the module is compulsory for passing the module. Students will also be required to make verbal presentations on their process selection and preliminary mass/energy balances in semester 1 and findings at the end of the project in semester 2.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Visit	1	6.00	6.00
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	2.00	2.00
Group learning	22	3.00	66.00
Lecture	30	1.00	30.00
Tutorial	22	1.00	22.00
Private study hours			274.00
Total Contact hours			126.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Background reading
Literature search and review
Design evaluation
Process mass and energy balance calculations
Design of plant equipment
Report preparation

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students' progress will be monitored via:
- Submission of a project plan (2nd week, semester 1)
- Submission and verbal presentation of preliminary mass/energy balance calculations (7/9th week, semester 1)
- Part 1 report (11th week, semester 1)
- Plant equipment design report (21st week, semester 2)
- Verbal presentation (22nd week, semester 2)
- Extent of participation and response to questions asked in weekly tutorials
- Attendance in lecture classes and tutorials

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	Part 1 report (100 pages)	40.00
Presentation	10 minute individual presentation	5.00
Report	Plant equipment design report (40 pages)	40.00
Group Project	Part 2 report (40 pages)	15.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 15/12/2015

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